Senton Hotel

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7-story Renaissance-revival hotel completed in 1891. Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Co., this is the oldest surviving hotel building in the Madison Square North Historic District. By 1934, it was known as the Hilmont Hotel. Today, it is the budget Senton Hotel, with its 2-story heavily rusticated stone base (smooth with rough-faced bands) painted bright blue above a black granite water table. The facade is three bays wide, with a round-arched entrance in the western bay of the ground floor. The two bays to the right have wide window groups, while the 2nd-floor bays have paired windows; all the openings at the base have blue canvas awnings.

The upper floors are clad in tan brick, with metal window framings also painted blue. The double-windows have carved architraves and window columns, molded hoods, projecting sills (including a sill course running below the 5th floor). The 6th floor has round-arched windows. Another sill course sets off the top floor, where the terra-cotta ornament on the piers has been painted. Crowning the facade is a black pressed-metal roof cornice featuring scrolled brackets, coffered soffits, and dentils. A projecting, vertical neon Senton Hotel sign is attached to the 3rd-4th floors, between the western two bays.